September 3, 2010 issue

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Friday, September 3, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 7

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Trail of errors erodes scientist’s credibility

Dining cuts faculty and staff discount

by Sonia Havele

by Maggie Love

Dr. Anil Potti has focused much of his research on developing genomic approaches that promise to help doctors find better ways to fight cancer.

In 2006, Potti and a team of researchers introduced a new method of predicting how individual patients would respond to chemotherapy drugs based on genomic tests.

In many cases, doctors may not be able to predict which cancer-fighting drug a patient will respond to best, but Potti’s approach, published in the Nature Medicine journal, potentially offered a solution.

Potti, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and his collaborators described genomic signatures, or models they had developed that could predict individual patient responses to various chemotherapeutic drugs. In addition, they claimed to have developed a strategy to create a treatment plan “in a way that best matches the characteristics of the individual,” according to the paper.

“Part of what people are really trying to do in cancer therapy is [figure out] how can we decide ahead of time what is the best therapy for a given patient,” said Gary Rosner, director of Oncology Biostatics at Johns Hopkins University’s Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. “That would be a really big step.”

In an effort to reduce the Dining deficit, University officials ended the faculty and staff 10 percent discount at on-campus eateries Aug. 1.

At the end of last academic year, Duke Dining was faced with a $2.2 million deficit, which resulted in a series of meetings between University officials and Duke Student Government members. The termination of the discount is one of several measures Dining is implementing to reduce its current deficit.

“It’s a way [to save money], but I think they don’t cater enough to the workers on campus,” said Charles Gooch, chief steward for East Campus and vice president of Local 77, which represents union workers.

The deficit accrued during the 2007 transition from former caterer ARAMARK Corp. to Bon Appétit Management Company.

Faculty and staff contribute 12 to 15 percent of Dining sales, estimated Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst. He added that the end of the 10 percent discount is expected to save the University $50,000 to $75,000.

When making budget decisions, University officials put students first, said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

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Concerns emerge Soon after the paper was published, however, biostatisticians Keith Baggerly and Kevin Coombes became concerned with the validity of Potti’s work.

Several doctors at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center were excited about the clinical implications of Potti’s findings, Baggerly said—specifically, that doctors would be able to predict patient response to certain chemotherapy drugs.

“A few of them came to us in bioinformatics and asked us to help them understand the details of how [the method] works so they could implement it and treat patients better,” he said.

But upon reviewing the experiments, Baggerly and Coombes, both associate professors of bioinformatics and computational biology at MD Anderson, found many of the details vague, which made it difficult to replicate Potti’s findings.

“One of the difficulties is that in many of the journal articles in this field, the descriptions of the methods that actually go into the papers... just don’t have enough See potti on page 10

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New season rises with Phoenix game

by Dan Ahrens THE CHRONICLE

When the Blue Devils take the field Saturday against FCS opponent Elon, they will look to take the first step toward meeting the raised expectations of a program that used to be an afterthought in the ACC. After two years under a new system, however, the once-unfathomable goals of a winning season and bowl birth have now crept within reach.

Last season, head coach David Cutcliffe’s squad entered Wallace Wade fueled by similar optimism—only to be hamstrung by another FCS school, Richmond, in its opening game. Duke’s players and staff understand the importance of starting 2010 on a higher note after seeing their momentum smothered before it could even begin last year.

“That’s all we’ve been thinking about— Richmond,” sophomore linebacker Austin Gamble said. “We’re not going to let that happen with Elon. We’ve heard a lot

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of talk about them being ready to come here, but we are definitely ready to go.”

Saturday’s tilt against the Phoenix is Duke’s first chance to settle some of the uncertainty swirling around the team. The 2010 Blue Devils will look very different from their 2009 counterparts, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Following the graduation of linemen Vince Oghobaase and Ayanga Okpokowuruk, Cutcliffe and defensive coordinator Marion Hobby have adopted a new 3-4 scheme.

“I think as a coach you’re always going to look at personnel, and the guys here fit that package a little bit more,” Hobby said. “We’ve got to get our best 11 on the field, and they happen to be more linebackers than linemen.”

Gamble, a first-time starter, will join seniors Damian Thornton, Adam Banks and Abraham Kromah in the linebacking corps Saturday.

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Senior linebacker Damian Thornton and the rest of the Blue Devil defense look to shut down Elon Saturday in Wallace Wade Stadium at 7 p.m.

ONTHERECORD

“Right now our district does not have one School of Excellence, and that needs to be a goal for this district.”

­—Superintendent Eric Becoats on DPS schools. See story page 4

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“Last year, Duke’s season was marred by injuries and sicknesses that kept many of the Blue Devils’ best (then-senior defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase) and most promising (then-freshman wide receiver Tyree Watkins) players off the field for significant portions of the year. This season, Duke looks like it is ready to evade the injury bug...[in time for] Saturday night’s opener versus Elon, [where] only two Blue Devils find themselves on the injury report.”

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Chief economist pushes for Campaigns for prime tax cuts for middle class minister begin in Japan WASHINGTON — Departing White House chief economist Christina Romer called on Congress Wednesday to summon the political will to “finish the job of economic recovery” by pumping more cash into the economy through additional tax cuts for businesses and middleclass families, as well as fresh investments in the nation’s infrastructure.

In an advance copy of her remarks before the National Press Club, Romer did not say how much more she thinks Congress should spend to combat a jobless rate stuck at 9.5 percent. With massive deficits looming, Romer said much of the cost of any new package should be covered by spending cuts or tax increases in the future, after the economy has fully recovered.

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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, on the job for just 85 days, could soon be knocked from power by his chief rival, Ichiro Ozawa, who is seeking to regain political prestige that Kan had helped to undermine.

This week, Kan and Ozawa kicked off their campaigns for the presidency of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, releasing separate policy statements. DPJ lawmakers and local party supporters are scheduled to vote Sept. 14, settling a power struggle that analysts have called both destructive and unavoidable—and capable of breaking up a party that only a year ago represented Japan’s hopes for reform.

Because the DPJ controls the powerful lower house, its president becomes prime minister. If Ozawa wins, he will become Japan’s third leader within a year. His possible comeback runs counter to public opinion, with polls favoring Kan four to one.

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New rules will Bikram yoga finds following in Durham impose alcohol limit at Tailgate

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

by Tara Gavcovich THE CHRONICLE

Officials will be on student groups’ cases at Tailgate Saturday—30 cases, each.

Official guidelines for Tailgate were released Monday in an e-mail to the student body. The year’s first Tailgate begins at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, almost four hours before Duke faces Elon at 7 p.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium. Although there are a number of new regulations, the most noticeable one is the latest restriction on the amount of alcohol students can bring into the Blue Zone.

There is now a 30 case limit per vehicle—or 720 beers—and a six-can limit per person entering the Blue Zone individually, the e-mail noted. Both limits apply to students of appropriate drinking age who must present proper identification.

Sophomore Chris Brown, vice president of athletics and campus services for Duke Student Government, called the new guidelines a major collaborative effort between student groups and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

The discussions aimed to “promote Duke Football and ensure student safety, which are two equivalent goals,�

Moneta said. New rules seek to control the distribution of beer—the most challenging part of Tailgate, he added, because it is easy for students to abuse cans, for example, by throwing them.

Moneta said one potentially successful way of preventing problems is to reduce the amount of alcohol allowed into the event. Similar restrictions on the Last Day of Classes this April were successful, Moneta said.

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Students lay relaxed on their backs, palms facing up, enduring the heat and humidity. Yoga in Durham just got quite a bit hotter.

Bikram Yoga Durham, which opened Aug. 27, provides a new yoga experience for residents. The series of yoga postures, developed by Bikram Choudhury, is intended for a heated environment and is supposed to protect and repair muscles, promote relaxation and detoxify the body.

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Bikram Yoga Durham, a new studio in Durham, offers yoga classes in 105-degree heat and 40 to 50 percent humidity.

So if traditional yoga poses are not quite tough enough, try attempting them in 105-degree heat in a room with between 40 to 50 percent humidity. ‘Sweaty’ is often an understatement, and the only practical clothing is swimwear or Spandex. “If you can do this for 90 minutes, you can do whatever you want, physically speaking,� said Director Mani Tyler, who called the facility the “Saks Fifth Avenue of Bikram.�

In just over a week after opening, the studio has attracting between 20 and 35 people each session, Tyler said. On Wednesday, assistant basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski was spotted at the facility in a Team USA T-shirt.

Some residents had been waiting for the studio to open for a number of weeks. “I was stalking it until it opened,� said Katie Coleman, a Durham resident. Coleman added she has also done Bikram before, although the studio also welcomes beginners.

Owners Ralph and Andrea Newman, with Tyler’s help, spent about a year developing the studio. It employs three full-time, certified Bikram teachers—including Tyler and Newman—and two part-time instructors. Classes are offered at least three times per weekday and twice a day on the weekends.

For Newman, the dedication to the practice comes from a traumatic experience. He suffered multiple severe injuries and two major accidents, including an attack that burned nine percent of his body and a near-fatal motorcycle accident. Newman attributes his successful recovery Bikram Yoga, which he has been practicing almost every day for the past six years. “I found this yoga and it saved my life,� said Newman. “I want to share this yoga with the community—it’s very important to me.�

Bikram Yoga Durham wants to create feelings of health, comfort and connection, Newman said. He called See yoga on page 5

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Becoats looks to Council hears proposal for raise DPS’ level gender-neutral housing of excellence campus council

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Men and women may soon have the chance to get a whole lot closer­—in housing proximity at least.

Campus Council heard a presentation on behalf of gender-neutral housing policy during its first meeting of the semester Thursday. The terms of a student survey on gender-neutral housing were also proposed.

“Duke has been very accommodating to me personally,” said senior Lauren Haigler, an ad hoc member of Campus Council’s policy committee. “We need a place on campus for gender-neutral housing so that everyone is accommodated.”

Haigler, with members from the subcommittee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trangender and Queer Life for the 2010 Committee on Gender, proposed a ballot to the Council that will gauge student reaction to and interest in gender-neutral housing. The survey will hopefully be available to students sometime next week, said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior.

If enacted, same-sex roommate pairs could live

in rooms adjacent to roommate pairs of the opposite gender, Haigler said. The policy could also allow co-ed bathrooms or co-ed housing, which means male and female students could live together in the same dorm room or apartment. Gender-neutral housing would be an “opt-in” housing option, comparable to Wellness Living/Learning Community or the Women’s Housing Option, Haigler added.

The gender-neutral housing initiative is partly a result of a controversy the University faced in 2007. A transgender student was forced to leave a female residence hall and move to a single room with a private bathroom after a parent of another student expressed concern.

“There wasn’t enough student choice in the matter,” said Chair of the Committee on Gender Michelle Sohn, a senior and a member of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board. “That made for a lose-lose situation.”

Duke Student Government endorsed gender-neutral housing in March. Temple said he is excited to see the See council on page 5

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Senior Lauren Haigler, an ad hoc member of Campus Council’s policy committee, presents a gender-neutral housing policy Thursday night.

by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE

After a summer marred by budget hardships, the Durham Public Schools Board of Education is hoping Eric Becoats will be the leader who turns the city’s school system around.

Becoats assumed the position that oversees the 53 schools that make up the Durham Public Schools system July 1. Since then, he has been on a “listening and learning” tour and met with numerous members of the community to better understand the challenges he will combat as DPS superintendent.

Thus far, Becoats said the biggest issues called to his attention have been low student achievement, poor mental health services for students, sparse art and language programs and substandard professional development of teachers. For now, though, Becoats said improving student achievement is his main concern. “[My] goal is to make sure that in my mind we have schools of excellent achievement,” Becoats said, referring to schools that exceed their growth goals and enroll 90 percent of students at grade level or above. “Right now, our district does not have one School of Excellence, and that needs to be a goal for this district.”

Becoats said he hopes money from the “Race to the Top”—a federal grant that will provide North Carolina with about $400 million—will find its way into the school system and help him implement solutions, especially given recent budget cuts in the district. Because the state has not yet designated how it will distribute the funds, Becoats said he will continue to take a conservative approach to DPS spending.

“I think we have to look at the way we are spending our dollars and evaluate programs as to whether or not they are working or not working,” he said. “But I do think those dollars will help us to achieve results.”

Despite the looming challenges he faces, Becoats said Durham’s desire to improve is what made the district appealing to him.

“This is a school district that wanted reform and wanted to seek improvement for student outcomes, and the district has done a lot of innovative things for student learning,” he explained. “I felt that this was a district that was ready for moving to the next level and significantly improving what goes on in the schools.”

Becoats, formerly the chief administrative officer for Guilford County Schools, replaced Carl Harris, who currently serves as a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Education.

Prior to working with GCS, Becoats spent time on school boards in Baltimore and Charlotte-Mecklenburg. In 2004, Becoats resigned from his position in Charlotte-Mecklenburg after being accused of taking resources from the district for his personal use. Despite these accusations, the DPS Board of Education decided he was fit for the job.

“The school board did their vetting process and I haven’t heard anyone say they were disappointed with the choice,” said Mayor Bill Bell. “I think he’s doing smart things in terms of trying to listen to members of the community and getting feedback from them.”

Bell added that he hopes Becoats will put emphasis on improving performance and graduation rates and close “the performance gap between African-American students and majority students.”

“Obviously the performance of the students in our schools and graduation rates, in particular those of African-American males, are going to be his biggest challenges,” he said. “Those corrections are not going to happen over night.”

Minnie Forte-Brown, chair of the DPS Board of Education, said she was pleased with Becoats’ first two months as superintendent.

“He has come in with an entry plan that is sensitive to the community,” she said. “He has accomplished quite a bit in two months, and he’s performed exactly the way he promised he would when he ran.”

Becoats has met with numerous Durham officials, including community elected officials, the mayor and Duke President Richard Brodhead. Forte-Brown said she has high expectations for the new superintendent.

“The improvement of DPS is necessary,” she said. “That achievement scores go up, that schools that are declared low-performing raise their scores so that they are no longer low-performing, that our whole district moves the needle.

That’s what I expect to see happen this year.”

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council from page 4 campus’s response to the survey, adding that he hopes it will allow Campus Council to move forward with the policy with confidence.

This is not to say that passing the policy is contingent just on student opinion, said M.J. Williams, director of housing accommodations, administration and finance for Residence Life and Housing Services.

“The issue that you will face is the liberal-mind thinking of the students that are here and the conservative-mind thinking of parents,” she said. “Keep in mind that parents pay the bills and still have a voice.”

More than 50 schools nationwide have a gender-neutral living option, though some feature a parental veto, Haigler said. She also emphasized that this issue is more about accommodation than anything else and noted that this living option is probably best suited for Central Campus.

“The goal for this year is to get some sort of gender-neutral housing policy on campus,” she said. “My big thing is accommodating everyone without encroaching on someone else.”

In other business: Facilities and Services Committee Chair Douglas Hanna, a sophomore, reported that Campus Council purchased four additional ice machines—for a total of six—

yoga from page 3 the studio “truly a Bikram yoga college” where class is serious.

The experience is not supposed to end at the same time as class. Perks for students include ice-cold, lavender-scented towels distributed after the lights go down and a

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that are now functional throughout West Campus residence halls. The ice machines were purchased for $47,000.

Campus Council had originally planned on buying just two machines, but when a $20,000 order of new furniture for Few Quadrangle was canceled over the summer, FSC decided to buy additional machines with the remaining funds. FSC still came in under budget for the year by $10,000.

“We went through the University ordering procedures [for the furniture],” Hanna said. “My guess is that the architect didn’t approve them visually.”

He added that this incident will lead to a larger effort to make contingency plans for facilities projects in case something like this arises again in the future.

A reverse vending machine will be installed in the Wannamaker Dormitory basement within the next three weeks, Hanna added. The machines compress aluminum cans, providing prizes at random for students who use the machine to recycle. They were leased for three years at a cost of $7,200.

“It’s essentially a beer can slot machine,” Hanna said.

Campus Council is also sponsoring Endless Summer from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Central Campus Pool. The Homecoming Pep Rally is Sept. 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. on the Main West Quadrangle and will feature the band Fastball. cooler full of fruit-flavored popsicles.

“They’re my favorite,” said Coleman, “I really look forward to it after class.”

The studio also uses state-of-the-art and hypoallergenic technology including three air-handling units, two humidifiers and tankless water heaters to heat the studio, prevent mold and conserve energy, Tyler said.

discount from page 1 “There have been reforms and there will continue to be reforms, but our priority is to not affect the student experience— undergraduate or graduate—and that’s going to be our highest priority in everything we do,” Moneta said.

But students have been somewhat affected by the Dining deficit, as well. Other changes made to Dining include an increase of the contract fee to $90—up from $19.50 last year—for the 2010-2011 academic year.

“As far as I’m concerned, that discount discontinuation was a victory for [students] because it leveled the playing field and lessened the burden the students had to bear,” said Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, a senior. “This is a pretty fair trade. [Students] pay extra

up front and [employees] pay the same as us at the register,” he added.

The loss of the employee discount, which had been in effect for 15 years, may discourage employees from buying food on campus altogether, Gooch said. Currently, it is rare to see workers receiving small salaries eating in campus venues, he added.

“You don’t see too many workers coming [to the Marketplace] to eat—workers can’t afford to eat here,” Gooch said.

Moneta said it is too soon to tell how the discount will affect food sales. He added, however, that he is confident that pricing specials at certain venues will contribute to the success of University eateries.

“Regardless of our current condition, our intent is further improvement— we will always look for ways to improve the dining experience for employees at Duke,” Moneta said.

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L’Shanah Tovah Happy New Year

Rosh Hashanah Wednesday, September 8th – Friday, September 10th

Yom Kippur

“Tailgate is a priority because it is one of the few social events open to everyone on campus, so [student leaders] fight really hard to protect it,” said DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior. “Our biggest fear is that people will not show up and go somewhere else to tailgate.

But I do think that enough people will come, and this limits how much beer they waste.”

The alcohol restrictions are not the only new regulations at the event. Each registered group must have two student representatives who enforce policies among their members, such as the rule against not standing or sitting on cars.

These members must wear a special neon orange t-shirt with a football logo and signs of alcohol poisoning on the on it.

All T-shirts were designed and donated by Duke Stores, Brown said.

Additionally, there is now a Tailgate Team, comparable to party monitors, responsible for enforcing safety guidelines in specific zones. All of the new rules, but this one in particular, promote the “goal to bring Tailgate into students’ hands and allow it to be a student run and operated event that can run as smoothly as possible while avoiding sanctions,” Brown said.

Lefevre said he was pleased with the outcome, which he believes is agreeable to both students and the administration.

Both DSG representatives said Tailgate rules are subject to change based on student behavior and how effective they are in achieving goals of safety and promoting school spirit.

Duke Football has seven home games this year, with the regular season ending Nov. 27 against rival North Carolina.

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potti from page 1 detail to figure out exactly how the data were analyzed,” Coombes said.

In the next three years, Potti and his mentor, Joseph Nevins, director of Duke’s Center for Applied Genomics and Barbara Levine Professor of Breast Cancer Genomics, published a number of papers, including one in The New England Journal of Medicine, using methods similar to the first paper.

Baggerly and Coombes continued analyzing the research—spending about 1,500 hours in all—and found additional problems, including ones they said might jeopardize patient safety. In addition, they learned that Potti and Nevins had been running clinical trials for two years using data that Baggerly and Coombes believed was flawed.

“We had found flaws with not just one but several of the papers [that were] somewhat simple in nature but important in outcome,” Baggerly said.

Baggerly noted as an example that the Duke researchers had reversed labels signifying whether or not a patient was sensitive or resistant to a chemotherapy in several papers.

“Clinically that means if they are making this type of mix-up with the real data, they would be suggesting instead of the best therapy for a given patient, the worst,” Baggerly said.

The two biostatisticians submitted their concerns in a September 2009 paper that later appeared in the December 2009 issue of Annals of Applied Statistics, also noting two other areas of concern.

Potti and Nevins indicate that several genes are important, but Baggerly and Coombes could not detect those genes using the software and data that Potti and Nevins said they used.

In some cases, these genes were discussed in the paper as being key to the findings.

“They’re the ones that get put in the discussion of the paper saying this is why you

should believe it, and those are the ones that do not reproduce at all,” Coombes said.

The second issue has to do with the scrambling of multiple labels in a way that improved the research findings.

“The labels as to who responded and who did not respond to the drug are scrambled in a way that makes the results that they find better than the results that we find,” Coombes said. “And you can tell this because... these are public data sources—you can compare what they posted on the Duke website with the original source of the data.”

After Baggerly and Coombes published their critique of the research, the National Cancer Institute contacted Duke about three clinical trials the University was running based on Potti’s and Nevins’s research.

The NCI’s concerns were brought to the Duke Institutional Review Board, and in early October 2009, the IRB launched an investigation of Potti’s and Nevin’s research, temporarily suspending enrollment in the trials.

Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for research, said the patients who were already in the trials continued their chemotherapy treatment upon advisement by several directors of other cancer centers. “[We asked], ‘Would you take patients off of chemotherapy if they were already treated?’ and they said they would not take patients off of chemotherapy,” Kornbluth. said.

The investigation begins In response to the NCI, Duke officials decided to engage outside reviewers to objectively evaluate the research, Kornbluth said.

According to The Cancer Letter, the IRB turned to three directors of other cancer centers and an independent panel of biostatisticians who were recommended by Kornbluth and Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs, after consulting with the NCI. Kornbluth and Cuffe declined to provide the names of the reviewers due to a confidentiality agreement with them, Cuffe

said, adding that the agreement allowed the reviewers to speak for or against the research without repercussions.

“We wanted them to be able to say that [Potti and Nevins] were wrong, and say it freely, if that’s what they truly believed,” Kornbluth added.

The reviewers were tasked with making sure that Potti and Nevins had addressed all of the published concerns by Baggerly and Coombes and determining whether the methods remained valid in the context of the clincal trials, according to the IRB report obtained by The Cancer Letter. The reviewers could communicate freely with Potti and Nevins and had complete access to their lab, Cuffe said. They concluded that although Potti and Nevins could have better described their methods in their papers, they had adequately addressed all concerns raised by Baggerly and Coombes.

According to the reviewer’s report, they concluded, “the approaches used in the Duke clinical predictors [were] viable and likely to succeed.”

When the review ended, Kornbluth said she and Cuffe reviewed and interpreted the report, spoke with the outside reviewers as well as the NCI and other “knowledgeable bodies in [the] field” before consulting the principal investigators running the trials.

After reviewing the report, the investigators elected to restart the three trials, she added.

Cuffe noted that the patients were informed of the investigation and agreed to stay in the trial.

“All the patients were reconsented, so they had all the same information we had,” he said.

More questions raised Since the conclusion of the IRB investigation, additional issues have been brought forward, including more concerns raised by Baggerly and Coombes in The Cancer Letter, allegations from University of Michigan researcher David Beer that Potti improperly

obtained and published Beer’s data, as well as a July 19 letter of concern signed by 33 other statisticians. In the letter, the statisticians expressed objections to the reinstatement of the clinical trials, noting the “the inability of independent experts to substantiate [claims made by Potti and Nevins] using the researchers’ own data.” They wrote it was “absolutely premature to use [their] prediction models to influence the therapeutic options open to cancer patients.”

But the researchers should not have expected to be able to replicate the research, because the methodology reported by Potti was unclear, Cuffe said. Unlike the outside reviewers consulted by Duke, other scientists did not have access to Dr. Potti’s lab.

In July, Potti’s credibility was again called in to question when accusations that he falsified portions of his resume appeared in The Cancer Letter.

“That changed, in my mind, the balance of the equation,” Cuffe said. “I will acknowledge that when someone has allegations of misrepresentation in one part of their professional life, to me that raises concerns about misrepresentations in other parts of their professional life.”

The clinical trials were once again suspended and Potti was placed on paid administrative leave from the University. Last Friday, an internal investigation found “issues of substantial concern” with Potti’s resume, according to a Duke News release.

The University will not make a final decision about Potti’s status as an employee until an internal research misconduct inquiry and an external review of his science have been completed. The research misconduct inquiry may consider whether Potti was intentionally dishonest or made unintentional errors.

It may also look into whether Potti submitted false information in his grant applications.

A representative for the Institute of Medicine confirmed that IOM is considering conducting the external review.

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The path to defending their national championship has been laid out for the 2010-11 Blue Devils.

Duke’s schedule for the new season was announced yesterday, with the Blue Devils opening up play in Durham in the CBE Classic with matchups against Princeton and Miami (Ohio) Nov. 14 and 16, respectively. The team will head to Kansas City Nov. 22 for the semifinals and final of the CBE, where matchups with Marquette and either Gonzaga or Kansas State loom. All three squads in Kansas City were in the NCAA tournament last season, and Kansas State was an Elite Eight team.

Other nonconference matchups that stand out include showdowns with Oregon, Michigan State and Butler. Duke plays the Ducks Nov. 27 in a neutral-site matchup at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore., the home state of senior forward Kyle Singler. The Blue Devils then travel back home and face the Spartans—a 2010 Final Four squad—as part of the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

Duke-Butler, last year’s national championship game rematch, will take place at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., Dec. 4th.

The conference season begins Jan. 2 when Miami travels to Cameron Indoor Stadium. The year’s ACC slate will feature home-and-home series with Miami, Maryland, N.C. State, North Carolina and Virginia. Duke will face Boston College, Georgia Tech and Clemson at home and trek to Florida State, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech for its road games.

Like in years past, Duke will suffer no lack of national attention as it will appear on national television at least 28 times this year before the postseason begins with the ACC Tournament on Mar. 10.

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Duke’s challenging early season schedule commences this weekend as the Blue Devils play host to the third annual Duke/Nike Classic. Despite going winless in the preseason, No. 11 Duke expects strong performances against No. 20 Louisville tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium and Sacramento State Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

While three preseason losses may seem atypical for such a highly-ranked team, head coach John Kerr is not at all concerned about his Blue Devils.

“We purposely scheduled three tough [preseason] games because our season ahead is going to be very difficult,” Kerr said. “Results don’t matter.”

What has mattered over the past two weeks is Duke’s development and maturation. Four freshman including Jonathan Aguirre, who was recently named one of the Top 100 Freshmen to Watch by College Soccer News, join the starting unit.

By focusing on building team chemistry more so than results, the youthful Blue Devils seem ready to perform up to their ability this weekend against two NCAA tournament teams from last year.

“We now feel comfortable with what kind of lineup we’re going to have and See M. soccer on page 12

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Freshman Mollie Pathman scored the first two goals of her career in Duke’s home opener Thursday night.

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Sophomore defender Andrew Wenger looks to shut down the Louisville offense tonight.

After a grueling stretch to begin the regular season, the Blue Devils welcomed the opportunity to play their home opener against an unranked opponent.

Duke (3-1) took full advantage of the break in the schedule, tying a team record for goals in a 9-0 victory over Francis Marion (1-5) at Koskinen Stadium Thursday that was just as lop0 sided as the score FMU suggested.

DUKE 9 “We had such a hard start of our schedule with four games on the road, including an exhibition at UNC-Greensboro,” head coach Robbie Church said.

“That’s why we planned this. We felt like we wanted to get a lot of players in the game.

We have been playing a lot of players and I think it showed in the sharpness and crispness.”

The No. 15 Blue Devils displayed their precise execution from the get-go, delivering a shot on goal within forty seconds and finding the back of the net in the third minute.

Freshman Mollie Pathman beat the goalkeeper to the ball from eight yards out and finished far post to score her first career goal and give Duke an early lead.

The goals kept piling on from that point. Senior Molly Lester tacked on the second goal in the seventh minute on a ball played from midfielder Nicole Lipp. Pathman added her second score in the twelfth

minute to secure the rout.

The Blue Devils continued to pepper Patriot goalkeeper Lauren Vetock in the first half, finishing with 20 shots in the opening period to take a 6-0 lead into intermission.

With the outcome all but decided, Church brought in his substitutes for extended stretches, and the newcomers did not disappoint.

Freshman Kaitlyn Kerr had the highlight of the night on Duke’s seventh goal, even while battling through a knee injury that prevented her from playing in the first half.

Kerr received a ball played down the left flank from redshirt freshman Kim DeCesare early in the second period. After attempting to a play a give-and-go with fellow first-year Avery Rape, she took the ball herself past three defenders and fired a powerful right-footed strike from the edge of the box into the upper 90 for her first career goal.

She followed that up with a similar shot for the team’s final goal, and even contributed an assist on a perfect through ball to forward Laura Weinberg in the 58th minute.

“Every day I don’t even know if I can play so every day I come out here and see if I can do what I can with my knee,” Kerr said. “I just saw an opening, tried to beat a few defenders and put it in the back of the net.”

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where people are going be, and that’s what the preseason is for,” Kerr said.

Like last year, though, Duke will rely heavily on Preseason All-American senior Cole Grossman and reigning ACC Freshman of the Year Andrew Wenger.

Grossman looks to lead a high-powered offensive unit and create chances against the Cardinals and Hornets while Wenger will roam the backline acting as the defensive anchor.

“The leadership of Cole up front and in the midfield and Wenger now being a sophomore and a really important player for us absolutely are crucial for us,” Kerr said.

Against Louisville, Wenger and fellow center back senior Christian Ibeagha will have the large responsibility of keeping junior Colin Rolfe, who netted 10 goals last year on the way to a first-team All-Big East selection, under control. “[Louisville] is talented. They got [Rolfe] up front who’s going to cause a lot of problems for us. We have to be aware of him and work extremely hard for each other and we just have to be prepared,” Kerr said.

With the help of veteran leadership and sound preparation, the Blue Devils will look to go on the attack against both Louisville and Sacramento State. Kerr stressed the importance of having the correct mentality and making the most of home field advantage.

Interestingly, Duke was once the home of both Louisville and Sacramento State’s head coaches. Louisville head coach Ken Lolla, Duke ’83, was a two-time All-American and served as an assistant coach for his alma mater in 1985. A year later, Hornet head coach Michael Linenberger, Duke ’87, co-captained the Blue Devils to their first national championship—along with Kerr.

Regardless of Lolla’s and Linenberger’s Duke affiliations, do not expect Kerr and his team to back down.

“We have to take the game to them and force the issue,” Kerr said. “We want to attack them. We want to score goals.”

Elon’s offense, however, won’t give the new unit much time to come together. Led by senior quarterback Scott Riddle, the talented Phoenix will test the Blue Devils from kickoff.

“The quarterback at Elon is one of the better players we’ve seen,” Hobby said. “Their coach has done a great job of recruiting. Their talent level is up.

Their offensive line has two stars returning up front, which is always a plus. This is a veteran team we’re playing.”

The toughness up front could provide the biggest challenge, as Duke’s defense was ranked 74th in FBS last year

against the run—and that was before graduating its top two linemen and switching to a completely new scheme.

In addition to a new defense, the Blue Devils will also debut a new starting quarterback Saturday. Redshirt sophomore Sean Renfree will replace graduated senior Thaddeus Lewis under center in his first game atop the depth chart.

Renfree showed flashes of brilliance last season, including two passing touchdowns off the bench in Duke’s 35-19 win over Army. He was unable to participate much during spring practice, however, as he had to battle back from knee surgery to repair a torn ACL. Despite his injury, Renfree seems confident that he and his team have navigated

the adversity of the offseason well.

“I think guys feel a whole lot more prepared and ready to go,” he said. “There’s a lot of speed on this team, so practices are much faster. We have a lot more speed players at all positions so that helps simulate games better.”

Against Elon, Duke will show just how much that speed helped prepare Renfree, the defense and the other newcomers for the 2010 season. The Phoenix, one of the top teams in the FCS subdivision, aren’t going to let the Blue Devils learn much on the fly.

“They’re very basic, but very talented,” Renfree said. “They don’t do much, but what they do they do well. You have to give them respect because they’ve earned it.”

W. Soccer from page 11 bing an injury. Lester, DeCesare, redshirt freshman Callie Simpkins and Ashley Rape are all on the field after missing the entire 2009 season. And the Blue Devils’ new depth was readily apparent Thursday with seven players scoring and 10 players assisting on goals.

“We are a deep team,” Church said.

“It’s nice, total opposite of what we had last year and it shows. The crispness of our play is because we can practice well.

“That’s helped us get to this stage. As we all know there are going to be tougher games ahead. It’s a long season, but I’m just very happy with where we are at this point.”

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University’s parking crunch, as well as aid Duke’s quest for environmental sustainability.

Now, we believe it is time for students to show more initiative by demonstrating that they value this new resource.

As a community, Durham’s dining, culture and entertainment should make it an integral part of the Duke experience. The Bull City Connector is a free and convenient way to access the vibrancy of the American Tobacco District and downtown, with multiple stops on or near all three of Duke’s campuses.

Unfortunately but not surprisingly, the student body’s response has so far been tepid.

Student leaders such as resident assistants and first-

year advisory counselors can help their peers become immersed in the Durham community by emphasizing use of the Bull City Connector. Student organizations and social groups should utilize the bus to extend programming into different parts of Durham.

The University and Durham’s civic and business leaders have incentives to promote student usage of the Connector as well. An influx of students looking for entertainment and dining can provide a boon to Durham’s economy. Promotions directed specifically at Duke students could help draw riders onto the bus and into the city’s shops, restaurants, and theaters.

Eventually, we hope the University will consider add-

ing a more convenient stop on West Campus, and continue to pursue another route running from Duke to North Carolina Central University.

But first, students must do more to make Durham a part of campus culture.

In fewer than than 90 days Wynn will meet with City Manager Tom Bonfield to evaluate ridership and consider possible changes to the Connector’s stops and schedule.

The Bull City Connector represents another step in the right direction for DukeDurham relations. And we hope that by the time this meeting takes place, students will have increased their ridership and shown that they value this connection with the Durham community.

In defense of 20-somethings

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ave you ever felt completely ordinary Sure, the article doesn’t outright say any of this. about something, only to discover that it’s In fact, Henig tries to remain inconclusive about actually an alarming abnormality worthy the positive and negative effects of the “changing of a 7,500-word news article lamenting the current timetable of adulthood.” But she nevertheless writes state of society? from the already-grown-up side of the Maybe not. But maybe it just hapmaturation divide—and it shows. Inpened to you the way it happened grained in her analysis of Generation to me, upon the mid-August pubY is the assumption that life ought to lication of Robin Marantz Henig’s follow a linear journey, a narrative piece in the New York Times Magthat proceeds neatly from childhood azine passive-aggressively titled through senility, with maybe a midlife “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” crisis pit stop along the way.

“What’s Wrong With All These The sociologists Henig refershining li Unemployed, Unmarried, Undeences also see life as a series of all too human cided 20-Somethings?” would have stages that ultimately culminate in been a more apt title. adulthood. To them, a certain set In addition to pointing out everything Genera- of milestones constitutes a normal life, and deviation Y has fallen statistically short of achieving (set- tions from the prescribed path count as attempts tling down geographically, vocationally, romantical- to avoid the inevitability of maturity. ly), Henig postulates that these trends might reflect Call me immature, but I just don’t buy it—espethe development of a new stage of life, one that she cially because the people who do research on this and psychologists call “emerging adulthood.” stuff are invariably adults who have already personHere’s the gist of the idea: emerging adulthood ally succumbed to the grand narrative that they is like adolescence, but worse. Like the anguished then try to sell everyone else. Do I smell a bias? teenager, the emerging adult has no clue what he’s I admit that Henig’s defeatist account of life doing. He’s on a perpetual soul search with no real is convincing. It caters to the pre-professional in spiritual compass to guide him to self-realization. all of us. It feeds our fear of failure and our penUnlike his adolescent younger brother, though, chant, as lifelong students, for deadlines. It would he’s already completed his college education and no doubt be easier to give into the teleology of spent years chasing unpaid internships, dating casu- adulthood, to settle into a linear journey with the ally and generally living with a crippling case of com- roadmap clearly marked. mitmentphobia (coined in the 1988 self-help book That’s the funny part, though. As a 20-some“Men Who Can’t Love”). Meanwhile, his parents are thing, I do indeed feel a “sense of possibilities” still helplessly funding his decade-long identity crisis, incompatible with the pragmatism of maturity. Arand he has no problem being coddled. nett ays emerging adults have not yet confronted Hey, guys. She’s talking about us. the realities of the future: “[t]he dreary, dead-end Henig’s 10-page guilt trip unnerves me to no jobs, the bitter divorces, the disappointing and end, mostly because it captures my peer group with disrespectful children.” If this is the party Henig such alarming accuracy. When I read psychology is inviting us to, I think I’ll pass. I’m still attached professor Jeffrey Jensen Arnett’s list of the symp- to an idealistic optimism about the future—which toms of emerging adulthood (“identity explora- I see not as a single path, but as multiple options tion, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between” branching out in all directions in front of me. and—my favorite—“a sense of possibilities”), it So, what’s the matter with 20-somethings? Not was like reading a detached, clinical summary of much, really, unless you already suppose that there my own puerile, insipid soul. At the article’s de- must be something wrong with remaining open to scription of today’s 20-somethings “slouch[ing] future possibilities. Or unless you’re already an toward adulthood,” I winced and promised myself adult, in which case your perspective would necesI would drop my dreams of taking a gap year af- sarily disapprove of indecision of any sort. ter graduation and crack open my LSAT book the If I’m not making sense, here’s a line taken out next chance I got. of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” One thing’s clear: As 20-somethings, it’s no that’ll explain why: “Grown-ups never understand longer enough to doubt the future and question anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for chilour career choices. We must now feel bad about dren to be always and forever explaining things feeling bad, worry about our worrying and submit to them.” ourselves to meta-angst about our anxieties.

If we were better people, we would stop wafShining Li is a Trinity junior. Her column runs evfling and get on with it already. ery other Monday.

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Emperor Franzen vs.

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onathan Franzen’s novel “Freedom” does what and barrios found in the works of writers such as Junot most current fiction fails to do: encourages dia- Díaz or Edwidge Danticat. logue and an intelligent, albeit vicious, examinaWhat’s at work here is the symptomatic narcissism tion of the current status quo—and all found in literary circles, the devaluation of this before the book even officially of non-MFA card carrying readers and went on sale. In anticipation of his new the reviewers own shallow and pathetic novel, which hit shelves Tuesday, Franneed to see their reflection staring back zen received quite a bit of press: two at them from between the covers of a glowing reviews in the New York Times, book. When Oprah decided to pick Franthe cover of Time Magazine (the first zen’s “The Corrections” for her infamous living American author to grace the covbook club, Franzen expressed unease er in over 10 years), coverage on countwhile being interviewed on NPR’s “Fresh thomas less online journals, rags, blogs (Perez Air,” “I worry—I’m sorry that it’s, uh—I gebremedhin had some hope of actually reaching a Hilton included) and the attention of President Obama, who was given an admale audience and I’ve heard more than word by word vanced copy to take on holiday. one reader in signing lines now at bookNow, number one New York Times stores say, ‘If I hadn’t heard you, I would bestselling authors, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner, have been put off by the fact that it is an Oprah pick. I have come out like pit bulls, lambasting the Times and figure those books are for women. I would never touch the literary media for its elitist, and arguably segre- it.’” Well of course! Oprah’s audience is comprised by gationist, stance on good versus bad literature (“NYT nothing more than a slew of tittering, empty-headed raved about Franzen’s new book. Is anyone shocked? housewives—so empty-headed, in fact, they had no Would love to see the NYT rave about authors who ability to comprehend other Book Club selections like aren’t white male literary darlings,” Picoult tweeted Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” Toni Morrison’s “Song Aug. 16). While a few of Picoult’s novels have been of Solomon” and more recently, Uwem Akpan’s “Say tepidly reviewed by The Grey Lady, Weiner has been You’re One of Them.” consistently snubbed despite ranking at the top of Neither Picoult nor Weiner argues that they are the newspaper’s own list. In an exclusive interview publishing literary fiction, or that their aim is to write with The Huffington Post, Weiner cites the possible for the same critical audience that worships Frangrounds for such obvious dismissals: “I write books zen—that is not the point. In an age where women that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-con- should no longer have to write under assumed names, structed and thoughtful and funny and have things to as 19th century novelist Mary Anne Evans (aka George say about men and women and families and children Eliot) did, why must female writers choose between and life in America today.... I think it’s a very old and critical and commercial attention, or black writers deep-seated double standard that holds that when a be squeezed together on a back shelf titled “Africanman writes about family and feelings, it’s literature American” literature? The white male experience is with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same consistently viewed as the universal experience, but topics, it’s romance, or a beach book.” reviewers and readers alike must hold themselves acOf the 15 books currently listed on the New York countable and recognize diversity and human variaTimes Sunday Book Review homepage, 11 are by men tion—stepping, every once in a while, outside of our while only four are the work of a female writer. Thir- own comfort zones. All literature might not be great teen are authored by Caucasians; a mere two are by in- literature, but recognizing a wide spectrum of authors dividuals of color. These numbers are no coincidence, is a necessary duty for reviewers; readers deserve literand it suggests that the Times tastes are as bland and ary diversity. parched as white rice. One might even argue that the Times, and other similar literary powerhouses, only Thomas Gebremedhin is a Trinity senior. His column runs cover people of color when they write about the ghettos every other Friday.

Read a foreign newspaper

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mong the many requirements necessary to graduate from Duke University is a semester or more of foreign language, which can be met in a number of ways. Students with no prior credit can take care of their requirement by completing three classes in a language. If a student comes in with previous experience, though, they can fulfill the requirement with two intermediate classes or just one at the 100 level. chris bassil For students who wish to just a minute navigate around the foreign language requirement in pursuit of other studies, this setup seems to be at the very least tolerable, if not entirely accommodating. And for students with little prior experience in language, or those with a sudden desire to take up a new tongue, this is certainly an encouraging format around which they may structure their studies.

Lost in this equation, unfortunately, are students with a desire for language past the beginner and intermediate (and what we consider to be expert) levels of mastery. That is to say that oftentimes, language in the classroom setting can only go so far and is not a replacement for actual immersion: immersion programs, either in language dorms or abroad, are not always practicable.

Foreign newspapers, on the other hand, can be an extremely attractive solution for the student looking to keep up a level of fluency in his language of choice without significantly altering his surroundings. With the convenience of the internet, the hassle of having the paper shipped and paid for overseas is extinct, and the only real concern involved is whether or not a student can motivate himself to do his daily reading. The most effective way to ensure that this will not be a problem is to, once subscribed, select the newspaper of choice as the browser’s background, thereby bringing it to the forefront of the student’s mind at least several times a day, be it during work or leisure.

In many ways, this specific pursuit of language does things that classroom settings cannot always do. For one, it presents the language as it is normally consumed, without the emphasis on certain grammatical structures or verb tenses that arise from the focus of class units. Furthermore, a newspaper article presents the language in a coherent and flowing chunk of text that inherently tests for comprehension but does not require the dedication that a novel might. But the foreign language paper has other advantages that go beyond just the practice of language itself.

It is no secret that any source of news or story comes with a bias; this is something that hopefully all of us are taught from a young age. And just as the rift between versions of truth told by two different American publications might be rabidly, aggressively dissimilar, the foreign newspaper can oftentimes offer a supplementary opinion that American readers might find novel, illuminating or even offensive. There is a lot to be learned from examining the ways in which nations separate from ours view the state of the world and the circumstances surrounding its most important events, both those in which we are and are not involved. This is not necessarily to say that foreign newspapers always offer original reporting, but just that the way they cover stories, as well as the stories they choose to cover, can lead to a helpful questioning of paradigm on the part of the American reader once in awhile.

For example, a French speaking Duke student with at least a mild interest in the social and political affairs of the Middle East and Mediterranean might choose to subscribe to a Franco-Lebanese newspaper known as L’Orient-Le Jour, both for the valuable practice it offers as well as the unique and up-close view of Middle Eastern affairs. Spanish speaking students may choose papers from Spain, Mexico or any other Spanish-speaking nation, depending on where their reading interests lie. Finding relevant papers requires little time and subscribing, even less.

In the end, a subscription to and daily investment of attention in a foreign newspaper is a convenient and effective way to educate oneself in worldly matters, both culturally and politically. Even if a large minority of vocabulary is misunderstood or a considerable portion of the paper inaccurate, the mere act itself is also part of the proactive process of learning, and serves as a strong complement to a student’s language studies and participation in world news.

Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs every Friday.

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